john from his first wife and susan from dick horton. who was she? what was she like? i think the best way to describe her is a woman that always wanted to be a mother, was proud to be a mother, even though she had a great education, her passion was to be a good mother. susan, then 39, and john 37, each had two children from their first marriages. friends say that when they met each other, they made an instant connection. vesta hall was a nurse in john s clinic. she was beautiful, vivacious, intelligent, just a really neat lady. i told some people at the clinic i wish i had someone that would look at me the way john looks at susan. two years after their first date, they married at a local country club. dr. steve jimerson, a colleague of john s, was best man. oh, they were la-la. he fawned over her a lot. the doctor and his wife built an envious lifestyle for
opposition and grand skepticism. what he hoped to show the skeptics through trial was that, yes, the doctor was, indeed, a man who loved his wife. loved her maybe too much. john hamilton is a control guy. he wants to have everything in control, in order. to the prosecutor, the valentine s day card john had received that morning lit the fuse for the violence that followed. in that card, susan had writ ann message alluding to the couple s flare-up just days before. susan, ballistic with suspicions, that he was having a fling with a stripper. the prosecutor told the jury he envisioned the murder this way. the doctor coming back mid morning after his first surgery trying to patch things up with his wife, who majorly wasn t buying it. he knew that she was still considering divorce. something happened in that bathroom that absolutely